Tech company expanding to Singapore? 3 things you may not know about the city (Startup Asia preview)

Singapore is perhaps the most cliché-ridden startup hub in the world. Everyone knows about its business-friendly status, the lack of capital gains tax – which prompted Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin to set up shop in Singapore – and how it’s a testbed for technologies and a gateway to the region. But that’s scratching the surface. At our Startup Asia Singapore event on May 7 and 8, we’ll have a number of Market Expansion Tracks (MET) sessions covering five countries. In the Singapore MET, we’ll be going deeper into what startups and tech companies should know when deciding whether to expand to the city. As a starter, here are three things you may not know about the country: 1) Singaporeans take a while to open up, but can become shrewd negotiators once they do. Business negotiation in Singapore is relationship-based, says British linguist Richard Lewis . Dealmakers ty...